Perception of Colour and Motion

Question 1

What is area MT responsible for?

Answer 1

The area responsible for processing object motion

Question 1

Which type of ganglion cells are responsible for colour vision?

Answer 1

P

Question 1

What are pseudoisochromatic plates?

Answer 1

Tests for colour blindness

Question 2

Which stream is responsible for colour and shape perception, ventral or dorsal?

Answer 2

Ventral

Question 3

What is deutanomal vision and why is it important?

Answer 3

Abnormal green cones - it’s the most common type of inherited colour blindness

Question 4

The M pathway takes which stream, the dorsal or ventral?

Answer 4

The dorsal

Question 5

The P pathway is responsible visualising what about a object

Answer 5

What the object is

Question 6

Where is area MT located?

Answer 6

Middle temporal lobe

Question 8

How much of the cortex is involved in visual processing?

Answer 8

40%

Question 9

What is anomalous trichromacy?

Answer 9

Patients have all three types of cones but one works abnormally

Question 10

The M pathways is responsible for visualing what about an object?

Answer 10

Where it is

Question 12

How many types of cones are there?

Answer 12

3 - Blue, green and red

Question 13

What is area IT responsible for?

Answer 13

Perception of faces

Visual memory and perception

Question 14

What is the most common type of colour blindness?

Answer 14

Anomalous trichromacy